README.md

nillabletypes - A library of nil- and initialization-aware types in Go

nillabletypes is a library of Go types that provide nil and initialized states.

The nil state is useful when you'd like to communicate that a scalar value does not exist.

The initialized state is useful when you'd like to ensure that a variable's value has been set, typically after you pass an existing variable by reference to some other function.

Available Types

• Bool: represents a nil-able bool type.
• Float: represents a nil-able float64 type.
• Int32: represents a nil-able int32 type.
• Int64: represents a nil-able int64 type.
• Int: a typealias for either Int32 or Int64, depending on whether the target architecture is 32- or 64-bit.
• String: represents a nil-able string type.
• Time: represents a nil-able `time.Time`` type.
• Date: represents a nil-able date encoded as an ISO string.
• Uint32: represents a nil-able uint32 type.
• UUID: represents a nil-able UUID type.

Supported Interfaces

Each type satisfies the following interfaces:

• fmt/Stringer
• encoding/json/Unmarshaler
• encoding/json/Marshaler
• database/sql/driver/Valuer
• database/sql/Scanner